The Year Is
Bobby Mair & Red Richardson
A new comedy podcast from comedians Bobby Mair and Red Richardson
Every episode we travel back to a different year in history and talk about the weirdest, most interesting and sometimes horrifying events that year.
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Red is imprisoned in a Dubai prison so the brilliant Radu Isac steps in to guest host and joins Bobby to break down an important year for Radu's home country. By a speech in the Parliament of Romania by Mihail Kogălniceanu, the country declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire (recognized in 1878 after the end of the Romanian independence war). American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier, after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska. Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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The Year Is 1996 With Guest Host Jayde Adams
The Year Is
07/13/22 • 56 min
It's the Red Richardson show this week and he has with him, his very funny friend movie star Jayde Adams to make sense of the world according to 1996 whilst Bobby has some explaining to do. Back in the time machine, and Michael Jackson has married Elvis's daughter Lisa-Marie Presley, rapper and hip-hop star Tupac Shakur is shot and killed, the Deep Blue computer beats Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the most popular toy of the year is Buzz Lightyear from the Disney Pixar Toy Story film, there is an outbreak of British Mad Cow disease in the UK, and the rapped 6ix9ine is born.
Listen to Jayde Adams brilliant new podcast "Welcome to the Neighbourhood" on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cgc78c
Get tickets to Jayde's upcoming UK tour from her website - http://www.jaydeadams.com/
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What obscure or significant events did we miss from the history of 1996? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to [email protected]
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The Year Is 1979 With Alfie Brown
The Year Is
06/22/22 • 66 min
We are back in the Time Machine and brought our very funny friend Alfie Brown with us when a tsunami in Nice, France killed 23 people, China introduces it's infamous one-child policy for families everywhere, the "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the UK, French police shoot gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris, Dan White is convicted of manslaughter rather than murder after using what became known as the "Twinkie Defence". Also a big day for everyone as Bobby learns what a tarpaulin is and Red learns who Harvey Milk is.
Listen to Alfie Brown's podcast - The Alfie Brown Show
Listen to Alfie Brown's podcast with Josh Weller (that Josh Weller who does the music on our pod) - Dirty Air F1 -
Watch his Amazon Prime Special "Sensitive Man" - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soho-Theatre-Live-Season-3/dp/B09VYM6P4X
Watch his YouTube Special - "Imagination" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGA60RcfscQ
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What obscure or significant events did we miss from the history of 1979? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to [email protected]
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05/31/23 • 67 min
We welcome our very funny friend Alex Haddow, and the man with the highest IQ in the world Bobby Mair takes her on a tour of the year she was born 1988. A year when the cargo ship Khan Sea deposits 4,000 tons of toxic waste in Haiti after wandering around the Atlantic for sixteen months. A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim, Austrian President and Secretary General of the U.N. in World War II deportations and Aloha Airlines 243 safely lands after losing its roof in midair, killing a flight attendant and injuring 65 people. Plus we learn a lot about Alex's home town of Corby and it's role in so many significant global events, the time when Bobby stayed in a nuns convent, and Red stumbles a new conspiracy theory that may explain a lot.
Get tickets to Alex's debut Edinburgh Fringe Show "Not My Finest Hour" all of August - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/alexandra-haddow-not-my-finest-hour
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Please send us your suggestions for years to devote an episode of the podcast to and/or a story of your own for us to feature on our exclusive subscriber Patreon episodes - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yYq_k5DMjVnyDYKjjDJMHRSU3mB9KIcltJBIsAcsY0I/
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The brilliant and very funny and tolerant, Rob Mulholland joins us for one of our funniest episodes as historian Red Richardson takes us on a tour deep dive tour of 2002, a year when Eminem releases Lose Yourself and his biopic 8 Mile is released in cinemas, Afghanistan changes its name to the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, Ben Affleck was finally named People magazine's sexiest man alive, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake split up, Simon Cowell starts American Idol, and the Fifa World Cup kicks off. Also Red can't remember his own name as he's sweating so much, Bobby takes offence at being interrupted and Rob has just learnt his hasn't got long to live.
Watch/Listen to Bobby on Rob Mulholland and Freddy Quinne's very funny podcast Dead Men Talking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S52PFbYKEQ
Set a reminder for Rob's special "Born Ready" coming out July 2nd on the Dead Men Talking YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@DeadMenTalkingPod
Sign up now to our Patreon for early access, bonus weekly episodes not available anywhere else, posters, cameo messages, free tickets to online shows and discounts to live shows and much more - https://www.patreon.com/theyearispod
Please send us your suggestions for years to devote an episode of the podcast to and/or a story of your own for us to feature on our exclusive subscriber Patreon episodes - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yYq_k5DMjVnyDYKjjDJMHRSU3mB9KIcltJBIsAcsY0I/
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Now that Red is an international star, sunning it up in Switzerland, and Bobby is lost somewhere on British country roads trying to get to Cornwall and Jody is moonlighting editing other people's podcasts, we have dug into the vault to find another live show from Edinburgh for you to enjoy. We go to 2005, when the first person survives rabies, Prince Charles and Camilla get married, Rodney Marsh is fired Sky Sports, Saddam Hussein is put on trial and hanged, Hunter S Thompson and Richard Pryor die.
Red is about to film his on December 2nd - Get your tickets here - http://www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com/events/2543
Watch Bobby Mair's comedy special "Cockroach" on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67iptVv9ac
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What obscure or significant events did we miss from 2005? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to [email protected]
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11/23/22 • 68 min
This week we go to 2011, a difficult year for dictators, where Prince William Kate Middleton get married, Gaddafi is killed, 9/11 mastermind and Taliban and Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is hunted down killed in Pakistan, and Kim-Jon Il dies. Also Red is looking forward to filming his special in a couple of weeks and we get into a deep discussion about Pete Davidson.
Red is about to film his on December 2nd - Get your tickets here - http://www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com/events/2543
Watch Bobby Mair's comedy special "Cockroach" on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67iptVv9ac
Sign up now to our Patreon for early access, bonus weekly episodes not available anywhere else, posters, cameo messages, free tickets to online shows and discounts to live shows and much more - https://www.patreon.com/theyearispod
What obscure or significant events did we miss from 2011? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to [email protected]
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11/16/22 • 54 min
Content Warning: This episode contains either some new legendary argumentative moments on the podcast or very probably the stupidest. We go to 1856, where Scottish-Australian James Harrison invents the fridge, American mercenary takes control of Nicaragua, pre-human remains are found in Neanderthal Valley in Prussia, and the Battle of Black Jack, antislavery forces, led by John Brown, defeat proslavery forces in Bleeding Kansas. Also Bobby has been experiencing incontinence, and what's the difference between a fridge an ice house, neanderthals and humans, and Prussia vs Russia?
Watch Bobby Mair's comedy special "Cockroach" on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67iptVv9ac
And Red is about to film his on December 2nd - Get your tickets here - http://www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com/events/2543
Sign up now to our Patreon for early access, bonus weekly episodes not available anywhere else, posters, cameo messages, free tickets to online shows and discounts to live shows and much more - https://www.patreon.com/theyearispod
What obscure or significant events did we miss from 1856? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to [email protected]
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FAQ
How many episodes does The Year Is have?
The Year Is currently has 90 episodes available.
What topics does The Year Is cover?
The podcast is about Comedians, Society & Culture, British, History, Comedian, Funny, Improv, Comedy and Podcasts.
What is the most popular episode on The Year Is?
The episode title '1957 - Shark Attacks, Assassinated Swedish Schindler, A Fire Kills 44 Old People, the Last Man Hanged in Australia' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Year Is?
The average episode length on The Year Is is 60 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Year Is released?
Episodes of The Year Is are typically released every 6 days, 23 hours.
When was the first episode of The Year Is?
The first episode of The Year Is was released on Dec 4, 2021.
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